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Members of the public: “Ugh, why do Google’s search results keep getting worse? Is there any way to get the old version back?” AI Experts: “People are constantly using AI in their daily lives.”

Are the bars mislabelled in the Geekbench AI (Neural Engine) chart? Seems like the A16 and M1 have been flipped based on their comparative performance in the rest of the charts…

Sometimes a rights issue or for pricing differentiation. For example Netflix has supported a bunch of wonderful ports of PC games to iOS and Android. Do they have publishing rights to distribute those same games on PC or on a console? Probably not. This can also be the case for games...

How does Trump even have an FCC chair already, when it took three years for the senate to appoint a Biden nominee to the FCC? What the hell are the Democrats’ senators doing?

The Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health study that led to that Health Canada recommendation was questionable to say the least. It’s a pseudo-scientific meta-analysis of a limited number of meta-analyses of old data, most with major limitations or methodological flaws, and intentionally...

I blame that one on the Picard S3 creative team. Star Trek Legacy was doomed the instant they decided to rename the Titan to the Enterprise. Paramount wasn’t going to run concurrent Star Trek shows set on different Enterprises, and given the choice between SNW or a Picard sequel they made the...

I tried searching for more details, and the Hacker News article on this unfortunately just widens the net to more brands.

Except Epic does have a dominant position in the form of the Unreal Engine. And they already use that in an anti-competitive manner by reducing UE royalties for developers who launch their game first or exclusively on the Epic Game Store (as well as the same student pricing tricks Autodesk and...

Am I completely out of it to suggest that if the most pressing problems are that: 1) NASA’s developing a space station to go in lunar orbit, but doing so makes the rest of Artemis actively more difficult, and requires an untested, oversized (late) rocket; and 2) NASA isn’t developing a space...

Seems like a lot of useful equipment testing was achieved during this flight! I’m curious about the details of why and how they vented the capsule into space. Presumably that didn’t involve suiting up then popping the hatch to explosive decompression! Was it opening some ventilation line that’s...

Their lawyers’ continued insistence that the Disney+ subscriber agreement binds all of Disney’s associated corporate entities is impressively short-sighted. An act of sabotage causes a Disney-owned cruise ship to sink… but the saboteur’s widow once used a free 30 days offer to watch “Freaky...

The mechanical separation also potentially means that they aren’t all waste streams… if the decline in efficiency as a solar panel ages is due to issues in a few of the layers, then this could enable refurbishing the rest of the panel, eliminating certain waste entirely…

So many quotation marks in the headline and article, but you missed the ones around “improved”…

We finished Renegade Nell last weekend, and while the costumes, sets, cast, special effects, writing are top-notch, we found the pacing so bad that we almost gave up on it. The first few episodes were tight, but so many scenes in later episodes went on 50% longer than they should have.

Yep. Alternate headline: “New users forget name of Apple’s web browser, pick first item on list”

The article you linked suggests that it was post-merger Boeing that got caught, but that the thief with the stolen secrets had been hired by McDonnell-Douglas pre-merger.

But… the complainant once turned on the TV after a long day at work, and TBS was playing Dirty Dancing. After sitting through several ad breaks including gun, gambling and viagra commercials, they got to that scene where Baby’s father has to provide care to a young woman after a botched back...

Yes, and beyond that, fiction is also one of the primary tools humans use to think through possible repercussions of technological and social change, and create stand-ins so we can interrogate our ethical frameworks. Let’s listen to a wide swath of science fiction writers, please, and think of...

Lion was before the Mac AppStore, but after the iOS AppStore, and it was already clear that the two code bases were going to get closer and closer. In theory I think Microsoft still charges for major Windows upgrades, but in practice someone who bought Windows 7 in 2009 has been able to upgrade...

A good summary, but you missed one thing about the world of computing in 2000-2008: Most PC and Mac owners were purchasing a $100-$300 operating system or OS upgrade every couple years, pirating it, making do with old OS versions with unpatched vulnerabilities, or telling us that next year was...